Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 577

darth_ender said:
… I don’t believe Republicans maliciously pass these bills in order to harm everyone but the richest in America.

I don’t think (and I don’t know of anyone else who thinks) that Republicans are maliciously trying to hurt anyone. Rather, I think that quite a number of them (and I am convinced this is the case for Trump) are simply using this window of opportunity to become as rich as they can, as quickly as they can.

And their donors have basically said that the Republicans had better give them their tax cuts or face re-election without their help.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

I don’t think (and I don’t know of anyone else who thinks) that Republicans are maliciously trying to hurt anyone.

These things are often packed into an ideology that makes it seem like it’s not hurting people.

For example, there’s a belief that hardworking red states pay the taxes that support the freeloading blue states. So a tax bill that hits blue states harder is about fairness, not hurting people. Similarly, making healthcare unaffordable is about the free market. It’s about choice, not hurting people. And although the data indicates otherwise, there’s a belief that cutting taxes can increase government revenue, because a guy drew it on a napkin once, so we’ll increase those services the second all that extra revenue starts pouring in… any minute now, just wait. In the meantime, here’s another tax cut for rich people. Maybe if we cut them more it’ll work. This time for sure. And so on and so on until you’re Kansas.

I forget where I’d heard this phrase before: “So, you’re saying it’s a conspiracy?” “No, it’s worse than a conspiracy. It’s an ideology.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

Lots of people saying Twitter should suspend Trump over this.

I’m not so convinced.

yhwx said:

Lots of people saying Twitter should suspend Trump over this.

I’m not so convinced.

Trump has violated The Twitter Rules about 70 gazillion times already. The question is: how far do the special “Trump Rules” they’ve already crafted just for him extend? Which is the underlying problem with making special carve-outs for important people.

The sad part is this sort of dick waggling tweet from him doesn’t even shock me anymore.

Is Trump trying to provoke Kim into doing something, so that he can bomb them in retaliation? Or is that a stupid question?

The argument of “Twitter is responsible for letting Trump start nuclear war!” seems unconvincing to me. If Twitter has never existed, Trump would have other means to star nuclear war.

yhwx said:

The argument of “Twitter is responsible for letting Trump start nuclear war!” seems unconvincing to me. If Twitter has never existed, Trump would have other means to star nuclear war.

No, but the argument “Twitter has rules and procedures for repeated abusers of the platform and it should enforce those rules equally” has some merit.

From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

Open and shut case.

NeverarGreat said:

From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

Open and shut case.

Actually I think there have been far clearer violations, but they’re numerous enough everything else is just gravy.

CatBus said:

NeverarGreat said:

From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

Open and shut case.

Actually I think there have been far clearer violations, but they’re numerous enough everything else is just gravy.

I’m sure there are, I was just using this one example.

It would be fun to see the fur fly if they did ban him. What are his followers going to do? Piss and moan about it on the very site they would now despise. Not like twitter has any real competition.

SilverWook said:

It would be fun to see the fur fly if they did ban him. What are his followers going to do? Piss and moan about it on the very site they would now despise. Not like twitter has any real competition.

Trump’s followers have already migrated to Gab since Twitter started their fascist purge. But I suspect that won’t stop them from pissing and moaning anyway, because they’re pros at this point.